3 MYTHS THAT BLOCK PROGRESS FOR THE POOR – by Bill Gates
Source: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation By almost any measure, the world is better than it has ever been. People are living longer, healthier lives. Many nations that were aid […]
Dan Dennett: Let’s teach religion — all religion — in schools
http://embed.ted.com/talks/dan_dennett_s_response_to_rick_warren.html Philosopher Dan Dennett calls for religion — all religion — to be taught in schools, so we can understand its nature as a natural phenomenon. Then he takes on […]
How a banana can land you in an American Prisoner-of-war Camp
Whenever I eat a banana I remember the story told to me by one of Iraq’s few ACA Chartered Accountants. When I met him he was Finance Director in an […]
Gunmen kill 6 police escorting Spanish cyclist (in Pakistani Baluchistan)
By ABDUL SATTAR and RIAZ KHAN, Associated Press | January 21, 2014 QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Gunmen opened fire on Pakistani police escorting a Spanish cyclist through a volatile province […]
Reversing Aging: Not as Crazy as You Think
Time: by Alice Park — What makes cells age? Wear and tear, yes. But biologically, says, Dr. David Sinclair, professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, it’s lack of oxygen that signals cells that it’s their time to go. Without oxygen, the energy engines known as the mitochondria become less […]
U.N. to offset refugee crisis by buying Lebanese
STORY SUMMARY The Industry Ministry in cooperation with U.N. agencies will advise Lebanese businesses on the procedures to participate in U.N. tenders to purchase goods for refugees, Sabounjian told The Daily Star. Pasini, who participated in the meeting with Sabounjian and Watkins, said the workshop aimed at bridging the gap […]
Robert Fisk: Egyptians – or 98.1% of them – carry on a proud tradition
This is such stuff as dreams are made on, enough to banish any nightmares troubling the sleep of Egypt’s army commander, General Abdul Fattah al-Sisi So Egypt is back to the age of the dictators – or, as I always call it, the Age of Magic Statistics. The Egyptian people, […]
SYRIA: Montreux peace talks stuck over Assad’s future
Matthew Lee and Zeina Karam, Montreux MACAU DAILY TIMES Syrian peace talks began yesterday in Switzerland with a bitter clash over President Bashar Assad’s future. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Assad’s decision to meet peaceful dissent with brutal force had robbed him of all legitimacy while Assad’s foreign […]
Syria report: One is reminded of Nazi Germany
Everyone knows that the Assad regime – from father Hafez onwards – has employed torture and executions to preserve the doubtful purity of the Baath party by Robert Fisk, The Independent The pictures are horrific, the torture details revolting, the numbers terrifying. And the integrity of the three former prosecutors […]
What Studying Muhammad Taught Me About Islam
Source: Huffington Post By Craig Considine, Ph.D. candidate at Trinity College Dublin, interfaith activist Muslims worldwide have recently joined together to celebrate Mawlid al-Nabi, the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad. This day is an opportunity for Muslims and non-Muslims, such as myself – a Catholic – to reflect upon the life and […]
Ahmadiyya Community Germany organizes ‘Islam Exhibition’
Source Mr Kaleem Ahmad, Bad Vilbel Germany By Zubair Khan Exploring all the possibilities to showing the world beautiful teaching of Islam is really a unique quality of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. The Community that believes in the promised Messiah and Mahdi, Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian (peace be with him), whose advent was prophesied […]
Pope’s message to Davos: Embrace equality
http://i.cdn.turner.com/money/.element/script/6.0/players/embed.js?videoid=video/news/2014/01/21/n-davos-cardinal-peter-turkson.cnnmoney Additional Reading What if the top one percent in USA were true Muslims?
Hope in Montreux? A Starting Point for Peace in Syria
By Christoph Reuter SPIEGEL.DE Violence in Syria has been appalling in the run up to this week’s peace talks in Switzerland, where rebel and government representatives are to sit down together. Secret meetings in recent months give cause for hope. A bag filled with pieces of bread is dangling from […]
Inauguration of Crawley Mosque on January 18, 2014
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There Are 85 People Who Are As Wealthy As Half The WORLD, Oxfam Reports
Worldwide economic inequality is looking rather bleak these days, according to a new report by relief organization Oxfam. Oxfam’s “Working For The Few” report looked at Credit Suisse’s “Global Wealth Report 2013” and Forbes’ list of the world’s billionaires from 2013 to conclude that 1 percent of the global population […]
EU warns Israel, Palestinians of the cost of peace failure
BY CRISPIAN BALMER JERUSALEM Wed Jan 22, 2014 (Reuters) – Both sides of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks risk paying a high price in losing European Union trade and aid if negotiations […]
Syria Geneva II peace talks witness bitter exchanges
Syria’s government and main political opposition have traded bitter accusations on the first day of a major peace conference in Switzerland. The opposition and US said President Bashar al-Assad had […]
Noor Mosque – First Ahmadiyya Muslim Association mosque (a former church) in Sussex
Source: crawleynews.co.uk A NEW mosque has been officially opened in Langley Green after being converted from a former church. The first Ahmadiyya Muslim Association mosque in Sussex, the Masjid Noor Mosque, […]
Hypocrisy, Perfidy and Treachery of JI
Hypocrisy, Perfidy and Treachery of Jama’at Islami >>> by an unknown author >>> >>> JI is the party which was in the front ranks of the opposition to the creation of Pakistan. Maulana Azad and others also opposed it. It was an exercise of the freedom of choice, and […]
[Urdu Artcile] Naseehato’n ka Guldasta (4) by Shamshad A Nasir
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